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Best Greatness Poems

Below are the all-time best Greatness poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of greatness poems written by PoetrySoup members


You Know
Yes, my dear, you know,
You are my source of joy, rejuvenation, hope
I need your emotion spread onto my life,
I need your heart to sing among...

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Categories: greatness, emotions, friendship, happiness, joy,
Form: Ode



Premium Member On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...

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Categories: greatness, cheer up, mother, mother
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Alpha To Omega
ALPHA TO OMEGA 

A is for Arturo and Alexis two great Poets,
Who make us all cry and laugh
B is for Besma a great philosopher
And soul...

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Categories: greatness, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Flip Me Over
Old souls don't drift off and die
Sit there idle, or even care why
Achieving greatness takes time
Values and a certain state of mind

Realize, for once, it's...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greatness, care, courage, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hear Oh L-Rd
The Festival of Lights, Chanukah has arrived
a hopeful time of praise each year revived. 
The Menorah lit, each home becomes a church.
Blessed are You, L-rd...

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Categories: greatness, faith, family, happiness, universe,
Form: Kyrielle



Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...

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Categories: greatness, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member A Dream
Let there be no hidden or disguised facades
Let there be achievable dreams; not hopeless mirages
Let there be no sorry but sunny days of happy faces
Let...

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Categories: greatness, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Celtic Dreams
Celtic Dreams

The Celtic dreams come forth through auric visions of an all-seeing eye. 
An ancient calling where the mystic rivers flow down a rugged mountain
while...

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Categories: greatness, emotions, fantasy, feelings, hope,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Fall In Love With a Poet
We are the generation
of discontinued imagination.
With our twisting words
you’ll drink in
desperately.
Our beautiful stories
spun from the nothingness.
Shadows of hope
glimmering in the distance.
Farfetched aspirations
that will never be...

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© Kacie Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greatness, poets,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Inspiration, Revelation, Adaptation, Within Poetic Verse
Inspiration, Revelation, Adaptation, Within Poetic Verse

Sonnet I

I saw morn's soft hands stretching to touch bright moonlight
Is but a fleeting blink betwixt man's death and birth
Dark...

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Categories: greatness, art, creation, dedication, deep,
Form: Sonnet
Rise Up
Rise Up

Rise up to the blessing of another day.
To all that awaits you this moment.
To all that will challenge you and enlighten you.
 
Rise up...

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Categories: greatness, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Corey Fazel
Koorosh the Great, Friend

All of my heart
One tear
Or one Monsoon
No amount, no grandeur
Can express the sorrow
Oh yes, I am sad, I am saddened
I am in...

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Categories: greatness, beauty, death, death of
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Can'T Remove the Glitter From Silver and Gold
You Can't Remove The Glitter From Silver And Gold

Our love’s been bathed in sunlight and in the moonlight’s glow.
It comes close to being eternal and...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greatness, love,
Form: Sonnet
The Promise's Beginning
Somewhere in midnight’s nocturnal hallways
As the chill settles down with starlight
While the world stands silent in waiting
There abiding with his flock walks the shepherd
Hopeful in...

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Categories: greatness, devotion, faith, history, inspirational,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Getting What I Really Wanted
I wanted
peanut butter and jam
But settled
for bread and butter
I wanted a puppy
but got a hamster instead
I wanted you to live forever
Until I wished you were...

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Categories: greatness, abuse, bullying, desire,
Form: Rhyme

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